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Ang Sandali Ng Mga Mata (2006)

by Alvin B. Yapan(Favorite Author)

4.33 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Ateneo de Manila University Press

review 1: Ang Sandali ng mga Mata should be required reading to a generation who has forgotten the power of slowness of pace of indigenous folk stories. While surprise may be an essential element in horror stories, it is in the slowness that allows a story to linger and to creep into our memories, long after the initial shock has waned. The story is so "deceptively simple" (pardon the cliche) and yet it is powerful enough to make one want to sleep with the lights on.
review 2: This book annoyed me to death. Or maybe I didn't enjoy it that much because I was so tired from school and I had to read it fast for my class. The middle part of the book finally got my attention but the author knows all of my novel pet peeves that i started hating the story again later. The words ... moreare toooooooooooooooo colorful but didn't impress me. I would love to kill a lot of paragraphs because they're not very important. Too many descriptions. It takes an average of 3 paragraphs just to explain one idea. Too many connected stories. I do appreciate the writing style of jumping from past to present to past in story timelines but this didn't work for me this time. It annoys me how the narrator would tell a story from the past then suddenly say something about another event in another time then returns to the story he's talking about earlier and most of the time, he'll repeat everything he said so the reader must remember the story. The narrator also promises the answers to different questions in the first chapter, this is what kept me going. The curiosity. The narrator talked about how important these stories are in a lot of scenes. But the 'final twist' didn't satisfy me. The promised answers are not given properly. Gah. This is not a very objective review. I just want to rant it. less

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